Telegram-herald., 1887-04-17


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eastcmsr naturally protested zssInst the
unnecessary delay. aud exeeps the rslirosas
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te<nas for delivering oar gooas. OF else lose
our customers"
Then is a something about this season of
the year that Is dslishilal.y refreshing
Passing along the residence thoroaghtAres
one is sars 10 get his eyes fall Of dus..
which some industrious fellow Is beat x
fron the carpet on tasline II is strange
thing about carpet beating..thal the dust al
WAYS iiies toward the street. foE what reason,
is a mystery. Then one has the pleasure OF
shifting THE delicate perfums from the bon
fire which blazss IN 'front.' Of each residence.
like council fires ia a. Indian reservation,
waers the aroma Of barning rubber. old
shoss. bones. rags and other refuse combine
10 create stencil which makes life almost
wholly unbearable for the people in the
neighborhood who dssire 10 raise their
windows and get the fresh air of Spring for
change. The bonfire and the carpet beat
sr are nuissnces aud must follow in the
wake OF the Chinese.
Linen busters are ripe and with their
companions, straw hats. can safely be pick
ed. One or two have already made their
appearance bat were nipped by the frost oi
Thursday, bur should the tailoFs' strike con-
tinue, the majority of the young men viii
need secure linen duster as means of
concealing an old suit of las. years cloIh-
ing. for many ragged suit exists beneath
linen ulster.
''we might just as well shut up shop"
remarked c.. G. A. Voi5t, president of the
Voigt Milling Company. when asked bow
the Interstate Commerce Law affected his
b Isiness. The nsiliers who have the ad-
vantage Of being Oh water are no; effected
by the law, bnt the law squsezes as and ties
our hands so we cannot compete with them.
Little mills at every 'lour corners have
affected our business in this section materi-
ally. and now comes the big bin giving
other markets an advantage over us Ifit
is not remediei in some way We might as
well quit business.
Things have changed nightly in the
last half century" said an old gentleman.
As he munched some crackers and cheese in a
West Bridge-st. grocery. Now, l am IS
years of age and was brought up amidst the
surroundings OF liquor, yet | was never IL
toxicsted IN my life. and / can do as long
and az hard a days work as any man of half
my years. I'm down-esster. am. Why.
in Vermont fifty years sgoeverybody drank
even the minister, yet In those days | never
remember seeing bnt one man drunk, and
that was coIored fellow that the boys
flied up just to see how he would act. We
had whisky in the field snd al the
hands took a drink when they
felt so inclined. The same
state cf affairs existed in Ohio. Why, l
have sold lots OF liquor in the Buckeye
state FOR IS cents a gallon, and we made
profit Of 6 cents on it. Il was cheap. every.
body kept it ia the house. bet no one got
drunk. Il is only since the hullabaloo
against liquor tha'imen began to get intox-
icated, and believe the more you agitste
the subject and the tighter you bind the
traffic down, the more intoxieaticn you will
have"
II lived here years ago. when prohibition
was the law. but IL was not rigidly en-
forced, /" said an oid-tialer. who is leading
retired Ife. The community 10 those days
Vas sabjecs to great moral uprisings. They
occurred Periodically, about twice year
The moral aeitstoTs were about equally
divided ss 60 sex. the district
or Prosecuting Attorney woald hear Of the
advance or uprising of he morailsts and
would warn the grocsrymen ia town 80 get
their whisky out Of tue wsy. for il was the
habit Of the law and order elemsnt 70 20
shout the town AID roll every barrel Of
whisky they could find into the street and
knock the head cut Ira Hatch, row de-
ceased. used TO run large Tsrebosse down
near the principai dock. snd the whisky
sellers ussd 70 trsRsfsr ell o. their stock to
this warehouse. with the osisnsiaie purpose
of shipping i baok to Chicago. Whsn the
wagons from the lumber camps np the river
came - town after Supplies. whics Always
inoisded barrel or more Of waiskv, they
would rsetivs an 0rfsr from the dealer 70
% o Irs's warehouse. have seen
haif a dozen wsgons waiting to-
waisky sroand the cid warshosss
sfssr niFhtiall The oniv treabls sbest
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